PSYCH 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Baby Talk, Takers, Observational Learning
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False: opposite is true, babies learn to reach for things with their feet before they reach with their hands true, throughout development, parents are the most influential people in children"s lives. True: even as adolescents move away from parents, parents still maintain a large influence, most adults report that their earliest memories occured when they were approximately one year old false, infantile amnesia (3 theories) Brain changes that occur in development, maturation of the frontal lobe. Talking/verbal exchanges about memories help remembering: differences in how you remember things at infancy and adulthood leads to difficulties in retrieval later on as adults, most physical traits are genetically inherited and not influenced by environmental factors. If they need something, they"re going to communicate they want something to the adults: kids raised in cultures that do not use mirrors learn to recognize themselves .
